Well…when it came time to make the second meal of the stir fry chicken today, I wasn’t feeling it so I decided to stick with one meal today and I’ll probably feel it tomorrow…oh, well…I’ll make the stir fry tomorrow…just ran out of time today with doing an indoor ride, hitting three stores on the grocery run and then two rides outdoors…made a huge mistake on the first ride with how sensitive I’ve been to the cold lately…it was 53 when I went out and decided to go out in shorts and my fingerless riding gloves and by the time I was halfway, my fingers were howling in pain from the cold so for the second ride I put on a pair of long workout pants on that my daughter gave me and then put my lightest gloves on and that worked…so now I have another thermasuit that I can use in the in between temps…but that second ride meant that I didn’t get to lunch until almost 1 and I was still full from it at my normal dinner time so no dinner today…I did just finish up the 4th book I got last week and it only took me 5 days to do it…so back to the library tomorrow for more…and I did stop at the cop shop and got my beach parking passes for this summer…so it was a little of a busy day today and now I need to take a break…I am looking forward to the final season of “Bosch: Legacy” that is coming out in a week or so…only 10 episodes so I’ll burn through those pretty quickly….
Monthly Archives: March 2025
Technology is screwing the young…
Well…just read an article over on Kos that helped me understand why a lot of young men in the country voted for the idiot trump and the picture is not pretty…the gist of the article is that the use of technology and AI in college admissions and job searches has made it almost impossible for these folks to get launched by getting a college degree or job to get on the bottom rung of the ladder to start their careers and lives…the stories of young men and women having to apply to hundreds of colleges when they are not admitted as legacies and then have those colleges use AI to review their applications and get them tossed for even the smallest mistake like a semi colon in place of a comma doesn’t give many of these applicants any chance…and the the college doesn’t even tell them why they were rejected…and there is no one left to talk to about it at the college anyway…and the same thing goes with the job hunt that I even experienced when I was still looking for work…I sent out thousands of resumes and didn’t get any responses and they wouldn’t say why you weren’t a fit for the job…and no feedback raises the frustration level and makes people insecure and depressed…so it it any wonder that these young people tried anything like voting for trump to try to change anything? Now this is another reason to retire the 80 year olds in dem leadership…the country they are comfortable in no longer exists for a wide swath of the country and the solutions for these problems need to be new ones to match…and that isn’t coming from an 80 year old dem…geez…
March 19th
Well…up at 4:24 this morning and out of bed before 6 and I stayed up late so that’s not a lot of sleep and I’ll be feeling it later today…it’s going to be a busy one with doing the grocery run to 3 stores this morning and I need to get on the indoor bike by 7am so I can get out of here at 8:15…it’s supposed to rain later today so I’ll need to get the two outdoor rides in before that…and I do need to cook today with having chicken thawed for stir fry and that will keep me fed with two meals until Saturday when I’ll make another batch of Masala….or maybe I’ll wait til Sunday for that…man, I’m worn out today…but I still need to get moving soon and then just keep plodding forward all morning…hope to have the outdoor rides in before noon but that gives me no rest time at all…going to stop over at the cop shop to get my beach parking passes for this year and I need to start looking for a new beach lounge chair since the old one is just worn out after using it for 20 years…beach weather seems pretty far away right now with one more warm day and then down into the 30’s again…oh, well….more later…
Kinda busy…
Well…it’s been a kinda busy day today with getting three rides in and then just putting the chicken and the rest of the stuff in the dutch over and getting it simmering…I did finish the third book and have started the fourth one but I’m not sure how much headway I’m going to make on it today…have a few other things I need to do and still haven’t done the weights yet…it looks like DD has smoked spiral sliced ham for about 1.20 a pound so I’ll stop there for that and for roasted turkey for 2.50 a pound so that will give me some easy food to make later…so it will be a three store run tomorrow and I think I can get the indoor ride in before I go…and it will be warm enough to go out in shorts tomorrow before the temp drops and it snows again Thursday so I’ll be riding indoors through the rest of the month…I did get over 1,800 miles today and I just might be able to get to 2K before the end of March…still have 12 days to do it so the numbers work…okay, I need to get the weights going…
Dem leadersip needs to go..
well…after Chuck Schumer caved and got the votes in the senate to pass the maga laden CR to fund the government, I think he and the rest of the dem leadership needs to go and be replaced by people that get the seriousness of the political situation in this country and fight to stop the idiot in chief from doing more damage…and that would mean saying no to everything…this CR lasts a month and now is the time to start organizing and getting the word out that if the government shuts down, it’s the repubs fault…and I have not seen much written about all of popular programs are being cut…no one wants SS destroyed but going along with anything the maga assholes want is going to guarantee that is going to happen…along with shuttering of the NIH and the VA…so, now it the time to throw everything in to stop these assholes…and you don’t have the guts Chuck, get the hell out of the way for someone who will…geez…
March 18th
Well…up and running at 6:06 this morning and need to accomplish something today…not sure what that will be but something…slept okay but had to take a red dot for my allergies and it’s just going to get worse as spring goes on…haven’t eaten a lot in the past couple of days so I’ll need to do better today to fuel the three rides I’m going to do today…going to start with an indoor ride even though it’s warm enough to go outside right now…but it’s still dark and I don’t want to wait til after 8 to get on the bike…the bathroom needs to be cleaned at some point and I’m not sure if I’ll do that today or tomorrow…no one has protein on sale this week so I’ll empty the freezer for meals this week and probably take a container of ham soup out for second meals for a few days…12 minutes until I need to be on the bike and I need more coffee before I can do that…not much to do today…have to get my beach parking permits this week and get the books done so I can get more before the weekend but I have one and a half left to do…and I do need to cook the chicken thighs I thawed and that will be a nice change from soup, soup, soup….more later….
Not much of a day…
Well…it wasn’t much of a day today but I did get a ride in outdoors even though it was in the 30’s when I went out…no Stupid the turkey today so I wasn’t as entertained as normal…but the ride was nice and got me to 29 miles for the day today…didn’t have to cook today since I’m trying to use the potato soup up before it spoils so today was the second day of only two bowls of soup to eat…don’t think that’s enough…damn, I forgot to do the weight work…have to get on that after I do this…going to make chicken thighs tomorrow that will last me for 3 more days after I have the first of it…but I’m not sure what the second meal will be the rest of the week…maybe some pasta? I have enough chicken for another stir fry so maybe I’ll try that…okay, just checked and I have enough chicken for both a stir fry and Masala later in the week…so that give me two more meals and I still have a couple of pork chops and a t-bone in the freezer so I can make those on the grill this weekend…so it looks like the chicken dish tomorrow and then the stir fry Wed…okay…need to read more…
Don’t travel to the US…
Well…with the idiot trump and his minions locking up people who are here legally, say on vacation, travel to the US is now too dangerous for anyone to come here…and even dangerous travel notices are up around the world stating that fact…and the people who are detained are basically “disappeared” across the country and locked up illegally with no way for them to be protected from the gang of thugs running this country…and the word is starting to get out across the world with travel to the US down by almost 30% since those criminal thugs took over…so where are you the “good for business” crowd who says that the idiot trump is a “businessman” and that is what’s needed…the economy is cratering and now the excuse for that is that there has to be some “pain” before the glorious new economy will be here…not going to happen…this is what you get maga voters…we now live in a police state that has no laws…geez…
March 17th
Well…happy St. Patrick’s day to all of you who celebrate…man, I remember the years when a huge group of us would get together and hang out with lots of beer, shots, and laughs…I miss those days a lot…oh, well…I did enjoy the moon shining through my blinds in the bedroom this morning and I just lied there and soaked it in for a bit but then my compulsion to get moving kicked in I was out of bed at 6:09…it is damn cold for March out here right now at 21 degrees and I really hope this is the last of the cold for the spring…it’s going to get to 60 tomorrow but then back down into the 40’s for highs and we really need a break from the cold…or I do…haven’t smelled the spring smell yet and I look forward to that….didn’t get anything done yesterday but bake bread and read but I really should clean some today…oh, I did do laundry yesterday so I guess that’s something…I did take some chicken thighs out of the freezer so I can make the chicken, potatoes, carrots, and rice dish in my half dutch oven tomorrow…and that will last a few days to go with the potato soup and bread…not much to do today…just need to get on the bike in 14 minutes to get started by 7am and get the two indoor rides in…going to suit up and do an outdoor ride this aft…have a can of Colombian coffee I’m going to open this morning and see what it tastes like in my pour over coffee maker…I wonder if it will be as good as my whole bean coffee? More later….
This is how you do it…
Well…not sure if you knew this or not but the idiot trump threw out the entire board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and put cronies of his in…essentially magafying what is supposed to be arts for the people…so guess what happened? Performers of all kinds are cancelling their shows and ticket sales are down by over 50% while donations to help run the place have completely dried up…now this is how you react to this asshole ruining everything in this country…you punch the son of a bitch in the mouth and don’t go along with it…I guess Kid Rock or Ted Nugent can become the house band and do shows every day…ha, ha…keep it up America…geez…